AWS Adds Blockchain and Time-series Databases
At AWS Re:Invent 2018 today, Amazon announced three major functional upgrades to existing databases and two brand-new databases, bringing the full complement of purpose-built AWS...
NVIDIA Introduces RAPIDS Software Platform for Large-Scale Data Analytics and Machine Learning
NVIDIA today announced RAPIDS, a GPU-acceleration platform for data science and machine learning, with broad adoption from industry leaders, that enables companies to analyze massive...
BrainChip Announces the Akida Architecture, a Neuromorphic System-on-Chip
BrainChip is bringing the the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), an accelerator for spiking neural networks (SNNs), to the market.
Akida should sample in fall 2019,...
Cisco Unveils Server for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Cisco's new UCS C480 ML server has been designed to speeds up deep learning, a compute-intensive form of machine learning that uses neural networks and...
Google Puts Machine Learning in the Hands of Advertisers
Alphabet's Google introduced new ad-buying tools on Tuesday that showcase its push to allow machines fine-tune ads and determine where they should run.
Google is...
Samsung Wins at Two Top Global AI Machine Reading Comprehension Challenges
Samsung Research has ranked first in two of the world's top global artificial intelligence (AI) machine reading comprehension competitions.
Samsung Research recently placed first in...
Google's Third Generation of Tensor Processing Unit Offers 100 Petaflops in Performance
Google announced at Google I/O 2018 that is rolling out its third generation of silicon, the Tensor Processor Unit 3.0.
Google CEO Sundar...
Google, Baidu Support New MLPerf AI Benchmark
Google and Baidu collaborated with researchers at Harvard and Stanford to define a suite of benchmarks for machine learning (ML).
The 'MLPerf' effort...
IBM Sets Tera-scale Machine Learning Benchmark Record with POWER9 and GPUs
At IBM THINK in Las Vegas, IBM reported a breakthrough in AI performance using new software and algorithms on optimized hardware, including POWER9 with...
Making Music Using Sounds Generated With Machine Learning
Magenta, a research project within Google, is currently exploring how new technologies like machine learning models and algorithms might play a role in creating...
